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  • Nº16 # Date: 2015-08-11 - 10:01
  • # Max Depth: 10m Duration: 60mins
Diver's Notes

Shore dive with a simple profile at lower depths. Good for starters and for people who haven't dived for a while. The group contained several DSD students.

Not much life to be seen on this day, but it was a good first dive in a year.

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  • Temp: Surf 23°C Bottom 17°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Computer: Suunto - ZOOP
  • Fins: Aqualung - Slingshot Red
  • Mask: Cressi Sub - Matrix Combo
  • Weights: 8 kg
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Bothus podas (Delaroche, 1809) (Flounder) Found in shallow waters, over sandy and muddy bottoms of the continental plateau . Feeds on benthic small fishes and invertebrates. Reproduction occurs between May and August. Small individuals adapt well in aquariums but require sufficient bottom areas .
Holothuria impatiens (Forskaal, 1775) (impatient sea cucumber)
Luidia ciliaris (common starfish)
Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 (common octopus) Like all cephalopods, the common octopus is an intelligent active predator . They have modified salivary glands that produce venom used to incapacitate prey. It is often easy to identify what a common octopus has been feed...
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Paracentrotus lividus (Purple sea urchin)

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